Pieter Jansz. Quast (1606 - May or June 1647) was a Dutch painter and engraver.
Quast was born and died in Amsterdam. From 1634 to 1641 he lived at The Hague.[1] His pictures usually resemble those of Brouwer and A. van Ostade, and represent beggars and assemblies of boors merry-making, treated with a great deal of humour and not less vulgarity than a boar. His exquisite style romanticized the peasantry of the era in a manner that outraged the upper class. He married a french woman who he fell in love with on a trip to Paris, but she died from syphilis at the age of 27. He has been termed "the Dutch Callot." Of his paintings there remain:
This article incorporates text from the article "Quast, Pieter" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.